View of the Hag Magid site. Photo by Dobiesława Bagińska
Posted on 03/29/2016 12:25:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the mid-seventh century, Egypt was conquered by Muslim armies. The pressure of the invading army, advancing south along the Nile Valley, stopped the Christian kingdom of Makuria. The relics of this civilization have been discovered by Poznań archaeologists in the area of the Letti Basin, about 350 km north of Khartoum. Makuria was a powerful kingdom, which existed from the sixth to the fourteenth century between II and V cataracts of the Nile. For several centuries its power reached even farther north almost to the modern Aswan...
Now archaeologists confirmed the presence of previously known sites, but also discovered a number of previously unknown relics... mainly from the period of the kingdom of Makuria. These findings confirm the reports of the Arab travellers - more than 1,000 years ago, the Kingdom of Makuria was a rich country, its power could compete with the Arab invaders, attacking from Egypt. The Letti Basin was an economic and cultural base for the capital of Makuria - Dongola...
The researcher suspects that under the sand are well-preserved remains of a church, monastery and other structures from before one thousand years. To confirm this, she plans to perform non-invasive, geophysical surveys, which will tell what hides under the surface without having to drive a shovel... it is possible to make spectacular discoveries in the form of interior decorated with paintings, stone architectural details and decorative floors...
Ceramic dishes resting on the surface of the hill at Hag Magid come from VII-XIII centuries. The hill has a height of approximately 6 meters; archaeologists believe that it formed as a result of hundreds of years of settlement - subsequent structures were erected in the same place. That created a huge hill consisting of relics of buildings, mud bricks, stone details and tons of pottery.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceinpoland.pap.pl ...
View of the Hag Magid site. Photo by Dobiesława Bagińska
Whoops, I arfed up the author’s name.
The Hag Magid was the site of a temple built to honor the Hag of Megiddo, a famous wizzardess turned god, whose mummy was expected to resurrect at the onset of Armageddon.
The Hag was the patron goddess of misfortune and error and her adherents celebrated her deity and powers by dumping sacrifices onto the temple floors—then dropping the pottery they were carried in so that it would break. In the picture you can see an upside down sacrificial pot. This was the process of building the tel or hill that covered the temple over the millennia.
Thanks wb, I think of the poor bastards who dated her in high school.
Among other things she punctured their 100% genuine Nile crocodile skin condoms so they would get a venereal disease.
And so, like the rest of North Africa, the Islamic conquest brings.................desolation.
Well, yeah.
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